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Imaging the Shoah

Holocaust Narratives in Polish Children’s and Young Adult Literature of the 21st Century

Author(s): Krzysztof Rybak
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Polish literature; children's and young adult literature; Holocaust; Shoah
Summary/Abstract: The book analyses Polish literary works on the Holocaust for children and young adults published in the 21st century. The author examines the representation of the Shoah in books for young readers and investigates how literary and visual portraits of people, space and time as well as peritexts are constructed. To achieve this, he uses narratology, post-memory and ideology studies.

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